He put his book down finally and looked at her, realizing what he’d been ignoring. But it was too late. She was putting her clothes back on.

He was numb, at least from the chest down, and he was worried about how he’d look later. Such are the travails of an overweight fashionista.

And then she said something about falling in love and he suffered a heart attack and when he awoke in hospital she said it again and he died